MEATBALLS Film Soundtrack Music LP 1979 ELMER BERNSTEIN Rick Dees David Naughton
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Description
Label: RSO
Year: 1979
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: US
Cover and sleeve: near mint. Colours are unfaded and clean. Still in shrinkwrap buy unsealed. No tears on the cardboard sleeve. Small cutout on sleeve.
Vinyl: Mint. Clean on visual inspection. Plays nicely.
This album has never had a CD release!
Music by ELMER BERNSTEIN.
Track listing
1. Are You Ready for the Summer (01:47)
Music by Elmer Bernstein, Lyrics by Norman Gimbel. Performed by Camp North Star Kids Chorus
2. Rudy and Tripper (02:23)
(Elmer Bernstein)
3. Makin' It (06:54)
(D. Fekaris-F. Perren) Performed by David Naughton
4. Moondust (02:39)
(Elmer Bernstein-Norman Gimbel) Performed by Terry Black
5. C.I.T Song (01:28)
(J. Blum) Performed by the original cast
6. Good Friend (02:40)
(Elmer Bernstein-Norman Gimbel) Performed by Mary MacGregor
7. Olympiad (01:34)
(Elmer Bernstein)
8. Meatballs (04:58)
(Elmer Bernstein-Norman Gimbel) Performed by Rick Dees
9. Rudy Wins the Race (02:32)
(Elmer Bernstein)
10. Moondust (Reprise)/Are You Ready for the Summer (Reprise) (03:05)
(Elmer Bernstein-Norman Gimbel) Performed by Terry Black
11. Are You Ready for the Summer (Reprise)
Camp North Star Kids Chorus
Made in U.S.A.
Review:
The original soundtrack for Bill Murray's 1979 summer-camp comedy Meatballs, directed by Ivan Reitman, is a very mixed bag indeed. It's a hodgepodge of everything -- feel-good disco, novelty songs, middle of the road ballads and lush instrumentals. Snippets of Murray's funny dialogue from the alternately zany and touching flick are included too.
The highlight is the exuberant disco-pop of "Makin' It" by David Naughton, a singer, dancer and actor known for his Dr Pepper television commercials and starring in the 1981 horror film An American Werewolf in London. Meatballs is long out of print -- it barely scraped Billboard's Top 200 album chart -- but it is valuable for the full seven-minute version of "Makin' It" since the edited single hit number five and went gold. Mary MacGregor ("Torn Between Two Lovers") dented the Top 40 with "Good Friend," a warm and fuzzy piece of MOR pop.
Disc jockey Rick Dees contributes the wacky novelty tune "Meatballs," which wasn't much of a stretch since he had a number one smash with "Disco Duck (Part 1)" in 1976. Terry Black's throaty ballad "Moondust" accompanies the movie's love scenes.
"Are You Ready for the Summer" by the Camp North Star Kids Chorus is Meatballs' rowdy, shout-along theme song. Along that same vein, the original cast's "C.I.T. Song" is silly fun.
Postage and packaging £3.50 to UK. Will post worldwide. Europe £5.50; N and S America, USA, Canada £9; Asia, Australia, Japan £11. No returns accepted.
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